Parents' Reasoning about the Social and Emotional Development of Their Intellectually Gifted Children.

Solow, Razel E.

Roeper Review, v18 n2 p142-46 Dec 1995

A year-long qualitative study of 10 families of gifted children (grades 5 to 8) found 4 levels of parental reasoning concerning their child's social and emotional development: (1) no framework; (2) an intellectual framework only; (3) a full intellectual and partial social-emotional framework; and (4) a comprehensive framework recognizing both intellectual and social-emotional aspects. (DB)